Restaurant Roll Call: All the Openings and Closings in Denver in May

May has come and gone, bringing with it some new restaurants — and taking away a few. A number of openings, closings and other changes came from some of our favorite chefs and restaurateurs this month. Patrick Mangold-White, who brought Uno Mas Cantina y Taqueria and Kaos Pizzeria to Old South Pearl Street, combined the two ideas into one restaurant, Mas Kaos, on Tennyson Street — adding great indoor/outdoor spaces where Berkeley neighbors can enjoy spring weather. On South Broadway, Adelitas now has a smaller sibling tucked into the alley behind the main cantina. It's called Palenque, and it specializes in mezcal and Oaxacan cuisine. And in Union Station, chef Lon Symensma, whose Asian-inspired ChoLon and Cho77 have earned him accolades, turned his attention to retooling Acme Burger & Brat inside Union Station into Acme Delicatessen.

Others, though, have pared back their restaurant collections to focus on growing other concepts. Troy Guard, Robert Thompson and Mary Nguyen all closed eateries in May: Bubu Lowry, Argyll Whisky Beer and P17, respectively. Thompson will turn his attention toward his Punch Bowl Social empire, with a new outpost scheduled for Stapleton later this year. Guard turned around the Bubu space and quickly reopened it as Lucky Cat, a modern interpretation of a classic Chinese kitchen. And Nguyen is expanding the Denver presence of Olive & Finch, with a second planned for Cherry Creek and more to come in the next year.

Mark Antonation is the Westword Food & Drink Editor. He got his start by eating at and writing about every restaurant on Federal Boulevard and continues to cover the metro area's diverse international food scene, as well as the city's quickly changing restaurant landscape.